Old Fashioned Brakeman on Freight Train

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine / American, 1874–1940
Date: 1930/31
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 24.2 × 19.2 cm (9 9/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: gelatin silver print
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Vicki and Thomas Horwich
Accession no.: 2016.264

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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Lewis Wickes Hine
1909 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Lewis Wickes Hine
c. 1910 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Lewis Wickes Hine
c. 1910 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000198